7 reviews
Crime/Thriller
1h 34m
1949
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq,...

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- DirectorRobert Hamer
- Release1 December 1949
- Genre
- Duration1h 34m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate7 reviews
- Productions
J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Mayflower Productions
Cast

Eric Portman
Fernand Maubert

Guy Rolfe
Philippe Lodocq

Nadia Gray
Madeleine Saincaize

George Cole
Marc, detective

Harold Lang
Belfort, the pickpocket

Edward Chapman
Minister for War

Maurice Denham
Colonel de la Roche

May Hallatt
Monique

Arthur Lowe
Town Clerk

Sebastian Cabot
Prefect

Jeremy Spenser
Jacques

Hattie Jacques
Barmaid (uncredited)

John Salew
Minister's Secretary

James Hayter
Mayor

Keith Pyott
Father Pletsier

Philip Stainton
Café Manager

Hal Osmond
Swiss Taxi Driver

Alastair Hunter
Watchman at Legation

Charles Paton
Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)

Dido Plumb
Blind Beggar (uncredited)
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